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What Is the Effect of Pregnancy on Carbamazepine Clearance and Seizure Control?

Investigators reported at the AAN annual meeting that concentrations of carbamazepine do not change during the course of pregnancy and have no bearing on the risk for seizures. Watch here as Neurology Today editorial advisory board member Jacqueline A. French, MD, professor of neurology at New York University Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and president of the American Epilepsy Society, discusses what this can mean for clinicians seeing women with epilepsy of childbearing age.